This review is entrusted to the Commissariat of Labor by agreement with all other Commissariats and workers' organizations.

Adopted at the session of the CEC on January 29, 1918 based on the report of the Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs I. P. Proshyan (Left Socialist-Revolutionary) "On the budget of salaries for postal and telegraph employees for 1918."
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NOTE TO I. P. GORBUNOV.

To Gorbunov.

[February 13 (January 31) 1918]

1) The Decree on the issuance of bonds of the Liberty Loan instead of money must be submitted to print **today** — 31.1 — without fail (so that **tomorrow** it appears in the newspapers)¹.

2) Then this decree must be sent to Spunde².

3) The Expedition of State Papers must work *2.11.1918, at "Sretenie."³

Take measures.

In accordance with Lenin's directive, the decree was published in the press on February 15 (2), 1918 (see "Izvestiya VTsIK" No. 26 of February 15 (2), 1918).

A. P. Spunde (Lenin mistakenly wrote "Spunte") — was the chief commissar of the State Bank.

³ Lenin here uses the date according to the old style.

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ON THE FINANCING OF THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION.

DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE SNK¹.

[February 16, 1918]

Appoint immediately an audit commission of 2–3 persons to verify the actions of the Commissariat of War and Trade and of Industry and to inform the Council of People's Commissars on the state of affairs at the Arkhangelsk port.